Luke Sinwell

Associate Professor and Project Coordinator at the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice, Sociology, University of Johannesburg

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‘Insights into grassroots mobilisation in the Thembelihle community with Radio Islam and Luke Sinwell’ on #SoundCloud https://t.co/0pPk39Piq9

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Popular protests have surged around the world over the last decade. But do they work? And what lessons can be learnt from communities who have a history of militant protests?

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For the first time in SA’s 30 years of democracy, the ANC failed to win a majority of votes making a coalition with other parties imminent. We discuss the emergence of Zuma's new party (MK) and the left's failure to make serious inroads into SA politics.

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Join us for screening of Our Resistance, Our History. Trailer below.

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Luke Sinwell reflects on his new book ‘The Participation Paradox: Between Bottom-Up and Top-Down Development on South Africa’.

See full interview here: https://t.co/WXRCjWubin

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Join us at UJ, FADA (Bunting Road) on 16 June 2023 at 1pm for a one day art exhibition with Ayanda Mabulu and Brenda Sisane. Panelists also include Gabisile Khanyile (Sinethemba Women of Marikana), Ngqapheli Mchunu (TCC), Palesa Sekhejane, Mosa Phadi and Konosoang Sobane.

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Book Launch INVITE
The Participation Paradox: Between Bottom-up and Top-down Development in South Africa (Sinwell 2023, UJ Press)
When:7 June 2023 6pm-8pm.
Where: FADA Auditorium, UJ Bunting Road(behind the SABC)
Speakers: Mosa Phadi, Ayanda Mabulu, Luke Sinwell, Nombulelo Nyezi

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MA student, Fuzile Jwara, has penned an op-ed on SA's controversial position on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Congrats on your publication, Fuzile!
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invitation to a public screening and dialogue of the Emmy-Award Winning Documentary:

Miners Shot Down

Title of dialogue: The Beauty and Horror of Miners Shot Down

When: 23 May 2023 at 4pm for 4:30pm – 7:30pm

Where: FADA Auditorium
UJ, Bunting Road Campus (behind the SABC)

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Book Launch Invite: "We are Dead!": The Paradox of Grassroots Democracy Under Racial Capitalism

For residents of informal settlements in South Africa, grassroots organising can be a matter of life and death.

Join us at SA Block Thembelihle, Lenasia 20 May 2023 12-2pm.

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Stanley Muravha, one of our Master's students, published this opinion piece on the ANC's failure to address youth unemployment - Congratulations!

#unemployment #politics #youth
https://t.co/So1RWZYXjy

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We must avoid mistakenly pitching these and other major policy changes simply as a result of a caring and listening government, nor do such reforms automatically lead to positive changes for the working class in the long–term…
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New Book: The Participation Paradox (with UJ Press) asks: Is the ideology of grassroots democracy a mask for the beast of racial capitalism?
The cover image by Ayanda Mabulu suggests that as seemingly bottom-up processes unfold, the eyes of the capitalist machine are watching.

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It's time we did something about this - please sign: https://t.co/X920wwseAo

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Statement from the Socialist Youth Movement on the betrayal of the martyrs of Marikana by @WitsUniversity in signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Sibanye-Stillwater.
The cut-throat mining corporation Lonmin is a subsidiary of Sibanye-Stillwater.
#RememberMarikana

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Fifth delay in emergency power procurement plan https://t.co/IkA6uvK9lS

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Billionaires should not exist

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The Centre for Sociological Research and Practice (CSRP) at UJ released the final draft of ‘Energy Racism Report: The Electricity Crisis in South Africa.’
Please find the full report:
file:///C:/Users/lsinwell/Downloads/Energy-Racism-CSRP-web%20(3).pdf

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